National Healthcare means more people having more medical procedures performed. Which means more malpractice suits. Which means more expenses passed on to the consumers' insurance companies. Which means more expensive insurance. Which means more taxes for those who pay taxes. Which means less money for OTHER essentials such as rent, food, heat, etc. So...

Now we need National FoodCare. National RentCare. National HeatCare. All of which will ALSO spiral downwards, requiring the need for National SatelliteCare, National CellPhoneCare, National CoffeeCare, and National ToiletPaperCare.

Yay. Since telling the Government to pay for stuff is such an excellent "solution", why are retired people EVER poor? After all, they have Social Security, right? Why are students ever stupid? If money ever SOLVED anything other than debt, we should have a 100% genius-level graduating class from Public Education, a 100% happy and comfortable retired senior generation from Social Security, and 100% healthy babies from the WIC/FoodStamp/AFDC/etc. programs.

There is only ONE case in which having the Government throw money will solve a problem, and that's if the problem is that the Government owes you money. That's ALL money does...it pays debts. Period. It doesn't invent solutions; it doesn't create morality; it doesn't engender charity. It. Pays. Debts.

That's what MONEY does. But the Government can't even do that, because the Government doesn't HAVE any money...it takes it from the people. So, the Government has no money of its own to give, but somehow people think that the Government's (lack of) money can solve the Healthcare problem.

It simply isn't that simple.

Medical Insurance premiums have to be enough to even the odds against medical expenses. Medical expenses are artificially high because, in part, of frivolous lawsuits that the GOVERNMENT keeps awarding. Medical expenses are also kept artificially high because of Medicaid...when you get Bureaucrats quibbling with Corporate pencil-pushers over which expenses are covered, the Medical industry ends up with large amounts of unpaid expenses. The medical industry has to pay their own expenses, so they have to charge the PAYING customers enough to offset the debt that is owed to them but is still unpaid by the Government.

So, yeah...it's pretty clear that getting the Government involved by throwing OUR money away is the best idea ever!

I can't wait for CoffeeCare. Have you seen the price of coffee?! Why should I have to pay $6.00 for a cup of coffee when I can pay $12.00 in taxes and make the Government buy my cup of coffee for me?!

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